10/11/13

He was a simple farmer. But his involvement in anti-government
activities was well-known by the authorities so when they picked him up and
delivered him to the detention center he was not in the least surprised. What
did surprise him however, as his eyelids suddenly grew heavy, was the large syringe
full of sedative that they delivered into his neck.

He didn’t wake when they dressed him in a Polish army
uniform and tossed him in the back of a truck that rumbled 500 miles through
the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and onwards to Upper Silesia, arriving
at the small town of Gleiwitz, just four miles from the Polish border. He didn’t
wake either when he was dragged into the control room of the radio station or
when the announcer uttered his famous nine words, “Uwage! Tu Gliwice. Rozglosnia znajduje sie w rekach Polskich.” And we can hopeFranciszek Honiok didn’t
wake when they emptied a revolver into head and placed blame upon him for the
beginning of World War II:

Though Hitler had already negated the non-aggression
agreement with Poland he still needed this part of Operation Himmler to provide
the world his casus belli. “Its credibility doesn't matter,” he told his
Generals on August 22, 1939, “the victor will not be asked whether he told the
truth."